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offsite link Met Police Boss Sir Mark Rowley Grabs Microphone and Throws it On Ground When Grilled About ?Two-Tie... Mon Aug 05, 2024 18:17 | Will Jones
A visibly angry Met Police boss Sir Mark Rowley grabbed a reporter's microphone and chucked it on the ground this morning when he was grilled about "two-tier policing". Erm, isn't that criminal damage?
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A biomedical scientist who called her Portuguese neighbour a "Spanish whore" during a row over a fire alarm was cautioned by police for a hate crime and struck off. No wonder the cops have no time to solve burglaries.
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England's seaside towns, like Southport, are microcosms of the country at large, where the magnificent infrastructure has been neglected to the point of decay and we barbarians live amongst its ruins, says Joanna Gray.
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Sir Keir Starmer should recall Parliament so MPs can have a "more honest debate" about mass immigration, Nigel Farage has demanded as he accused the PM of a "faltering approach" to the riots currently sweeping Britain.
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The Climate Change Committee has just released its 2024 report and its full of contradictions, reports David Turver. Reducing our reliance on oil and gas and making electricity cheaper are incompatible policy objectives.
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Free speech in Dublin

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Friday April 28, 2006 23:26author by John Kelly Report this post to the editors

The right of free speech has been limited. We will not be told to shut up and we're taking this message to the Mayor of Dublin next Thursday.

You may or may not be aware that no facilities exist in Dublin for the display of notices of social or public concern on public property. In addition to this Dublin City Council remove and destroy all notices of meetings or public assembly on public property. This policy has been condemned by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. The policy does not apply to commercial notices, eg concerts or other forms of entertainment. Its application to anything critical of govt policy is excercised with rigour and dispatch by DCC. I and many others, did not know for example, about a public meeting re the
"critical infrastructure bill" in Taylors Hall approximately six weeks ago.

This unlawful and unconstitutional policy of DCC and other councils is negating campaigns that lack the resources to bring their concerns to the broadest range of people.

In order to highlight this policy and a with view to having it revoked at City Hall by elected councillors, a demonstration is scheduled for the Mansion House at 11am to 1200, May 4, 2006. The Lord Mayor is empowered to elevate a drafted motion to revoke this policy and put it to a vote, to the commencement of any council meeting. This motion has been on DCC's agenda since last year. The Mayor has been requested to excercise her power to do this but has not done so. Publicity is the principal aim of this demonstration and our placards will focus upon this denial of a basic civil right to ordinary citizens and as such we are requesting that party political advertisements will not be a feature of the protest.

All citizens concerned at this violation of a fundamental right guaranteed by our Constitution are welcome to attend.
Yours sincerely

John Kelly

author by redjadepublication date Wed May 03, 2006 16:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

no need to have your own password either...

try... http://bugmenot.com/view.php?url=unison.ie

author by Ryanopublication date Wed May 03, 2006 13:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

See the story below from today's Indo: FG being probed over breach of its own poster ban rule

This may be particularly relevant as the current Lord Mayor is FG. According to the article FG don't even know that there is a postering ban in place.

Related Link: http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1608372&issue_id=13998
author by R2D2 Ryanpublication date Sat Apr 29, 2006 03:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It's being held early to facilitate the media. I know this puts a major blockage on many, workers, etc. apologies for that. If this can be made into a national issue (as it deserves to be) we can beat it and at the same time illustrate the depths to which our government will sink in order to silence dissent.

I'm still hoping for a good turnout, if it's an important enough issue for people most will find a way. I have to travel from Tipp the night before due to the early start, so yup tis a pain in the arse being so early, but for the chance to make this national, it's well worth the effort.

author by May the Fourth be with youpublication date Sat Apr 29, 2006 02:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If publicity is the main aim of the protest, why is it happening at 11AM on a Thursday morning, when few people will be able to attend?

author by Terencepublication date Sat Apr 29, 2006 02:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Every major street, shopping area, public space, main road, park, housing estate should have a site where the council would put up a billboard on which public notices could be placed. This would be in keeping with our so called constitution which is not so very effectively adhered to as we don't have anything that could be consider free speech.

Denial of the opportunity for free speech is pretty much denial of free speech itself.

What a lot of people don't realize is that the poster ban by the government is their most effective secret weapon. I would think after Feb 15th 2003 when 100K people turned out on the streets, they got scared shitless and figured the best thing is to choke any grassroots media campaign at birth.

Oh yeah and the Infrastructure Bill is all about taking away whatever tiny rights you have left to have a say in how and what things are built. It's a means for the government to build whatever they like by decree.

See the link below for previous coverage of The Planning and Development Bill 2006 (Strategic Infrastructure Bill)
BTW, there appears to be draft forms of it on the web, but they are hard to read, since I think these Bills are often built up on previous ones, so you need access to them as well.

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75314
 
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